http://counsellingresource.com/features/2006/12/15/money-psychology/ Looking at life through the prism of psychology, philosophy, mental health and more. Originally created by counsellor, psychotherapist and philosopher Dr Greg Mulhauser, this blog is now the work of an international team of contributors. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:07:20 -0500 hourly 1 http://counsellingresource.com/features/2006/12/15/money-psychology/#comment-35682 Scott Baker Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:19:52 +0000 http://counsellingresource.com/features/archives/2006/applied/money-psychology/#comment-35682 An interesting study. Given that culturally a person is non-existent without money and money seems to be the only certain measure of success in real terms, it naturally generates - and currently quantifies - social hierarchies as absolute. Its divisive, anti-social effects have never actually been in question. The very nature of its internal friction fosters all the reason we need to persist with it. This study does pay silent lip service to Marxian debate, which in the West is all but obsolete, or at any rate intellectually suicidal and futile, and this is a usefully subtle way of rediscovering that debate. You just can't tell people. The avenues are blocked. Unless one is fallen on the receiving end of the negative effects of our materialistic, acquisitive nature, the issue never makes one's spiritual agenda. It is culturally desirable and acceptable enough to never be in question. The disgruntled critic is rendered mute and impotent by the weight of their own argument: jealousy and sour grapes for their failure at a mutually consensual game. And in a game there are winners and losers. Hard luck... An interesting study. Given that culturally a person is non-existent without money and money seems to be the only certain measure of success in real terms, it naturally generates – and currently quantifies – social hierarchies as absolute. Its divisive, anti-social effects have never actually been in question. The very nature of its internal friction fosters all the reason we need to persist with it. This study does pay silent lip service to Marxian debate, which in the West is all but obsolete, or at any rate intellectually suicidal and futile, and this is a usefully subtle way of rediscovering that debate. You just can’t tell people. The avenues are blocked. Unless one is fallen on the receiving end of the negative effects of our materialistic, acquisitive nature, the issue never makes one’s spiritual agenda. It is culturally desirable and acceptable enough to never be in question. The disgruntled critic is rendered mute and impotent by the weight of their own argument: jealousy and sour grapes for their failure at a mutually consensual game. And in a game there are winners and losers. Hard luck…

]]> http://counsellingresource.com/features/2006/12/15/money-psychology/#comment-23184 Does Money Make You Antisocial? Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:04:46 +0000 http://counsellingresource.com/features/archives/2006/applied/money-psychology/#comment-23184 [...] In a nutshell, the experiments mentioned in the CounsellingResource.com article suggest that: [...] [...] In a nutshell, the experiments mentioned in the CounsellingResource.com article suggest that: [...]

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